My Business Isn't Ready Yet To Support a Virtual Assistance But I Still Need Help- What Now?
This is a great question and something I hear often. Truth is, there is a very fine line that you have to walk during certain parts of your business between cash flow in and out. As a business owner I've been there. I remember only have a $200 budget per month and I absolutely could not go past that. The benefit I had, was I knew what needed to be done and because of that I knew how to monitor the work. As an example, if you don't know why your car won't start, you have totally trust a mechanic to tell you the truth and do it at a fair price. No matter what happens you can't help but think, was I just taken? If you knew it was just a transmission and you knew 6 different places where transmission specialists were you could go get quotes and be in a better position, right? That's kind of what it's like to build a business online if you don't have the first clue what really needs to be done or how to do it?
Here's are 5 more advanced things that you must do for yourself if you're serious about starting a business online. If you don't know the base things that must be done, join me on my call.
1. How often do you email your list? Are you afraid of you list? You MUST email them a minimum of once per week. If you don't, you won't catch them during their buying cycle.
2. Are you running sales on your products too often? These have to be special and make a big deal out of them. Get your affiliates involved and put a count down timer on your sales letter showing how much time is left.
3. Which reminds me, do you have affiliates? If you don't you need some. It's like having an army of people out there selling your products and you only pay them when they make a sale! To sound like Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire – Help ME Help YOU baby!
4. What is your product funnel? Do you just have a mix and match of stuff all over your site? What is your main or signature product? What's your free product? What's your monthly program?
5. Do you know your conversion rates? How many people have to come to your site before you can get a new subscriber to your ezine? Don't know? ALWAYS know your stats.
Sure you've heard things here and there, and it's now common knowledge that you have to have a website, but what else? There's online schools out there that teach you how to sell other people's products, but what about your own? I know many people that want to hire out a consultant like myself but they can't afford it right now – especially in this economy. What is it they say? Necessity is the mother of all invention right? Well when times are tough you have to FIND a way. You want someone to pull you aside and say, "Hey, here's how I did it, just follow these steps." Well, join me for my call – that's the first step.
